Bolivia will gain access to Uruguay’s ports in exchange for a pledge of natural gas exports to Montevideo in an agreement signed in La Paz by presidents Evo Morales and José Mujica.
President Michelle Bachelet has declared a “state of catastrophe” in Concepción in the wake of the devastating earthquake, placing the zone under control of the armed forces.
Several British companies are poised to begin offshore exploration in waters around the Falkand Islands—sparking a diplomatic row with Argentina, which claims the archipelago.
A court in Nuremberg has issued an arrest warrant for Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Videla for helping to cover up the death of a German citizen in 1978.
Another indigenous Guarani leader, Osmair Martins Ximenes, was killed in Brazil last week, the latest in a string of killings related to the theft of the people’s land.
Chile’s presidential race heads for a run-off just as murder charges are brought in the death of candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle’s father—on the likely orders of late dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Former navy captain Alfredo Astiz AKA “Blond Angel of Death” went on trial with 18 other former police and military officers charged with crimes against humanity during Argentina’s “dirty war.”
Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets to celebrate the victory of José “Pepe” Mujica, a former leader of the Tupamaro urban guerilla group, in a runoff election for the presidency.
Israel’s Knesset unanimously approved a resolution demanding that Argentina extradite those colonels and generals involved in mass killings during the country’s military dictatorship.
The Argentine Senate approved a law that would authorize the government to obtain DNA samples from individuals suspected to have been born to forced disappearance victims
Amnesty International has called on Brazil and Paraguay to redouble efforts to find an indigenous teacher who has been missing since a violent eviction of peasants at a border village.
Coverage of IAPA’s annual meeting in Buenos Aires focused on legal measures limiting press freedoms in populist regimes, but use of terror against the media is escalating in US allies such as Mexico.
